DAVIDA ALLEN (b. 1951)

With Knowledge of my Fourth Pregnancy

Details

DAVIDA ALLEN (b. 1951)
With Knowledge of my Fourth Pregnancy
signed and dated 'Davida Allen/1981' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
200 x 166.4
Painted in 1981

Provenance

Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
Acquired from the above by the present owner in May 1988

Exhibited

Brisbane, Museum of Contemporary Art, Davida Allen Survey Exhibition, 24 October - 5 December 1987, illus. p. 38

Lot Essay

Related work: With Knowledge of My Fourth Pregnancy, oil on canvas, 200 x 165.5 cm, Collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia

The pair to this painting, is held in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia. Both of the works are illustrative of Allen's ongoing exploration of her intensely personal history through the visual medium. In Allen's paintings the artist and the art are inseparable, with her Expressionist style heightening the emotive content of the work.

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